Non Religion Wedding Reading

Union. But I can't stand Sparks.

"As you are the Moon of his life, he shall be your Sun and Stars. Your love shall be as ever present as those two celestial bodies... even though they are sometimes hidden from one another's sight. Your love will be the guiding force that charts the course of your tomorrows, holds your world together in difficult times and will make life itself shine bolder and brighter than we human beings have a right to dream of." From George RR Martin’s “Game of Thrones” (loosely)

This is my most popular one right now;

Never, ever, try to impress somebody. Be exactly the person you would be if you were alone or with somebody it was safe to burp around. Be that person. Be the person you are right now alone, reading this book. And then meet people. Then hold out until you meet somebody who is utterly impressed. Because then? You will not have impressed them. They will have been impressed by you.

The difference may seem just a matter of semantics. But it’s not. The difference is finding a person who’s right for you. Not one you think is correct. The other ways won’t work. Even if they work for a while…they will fail. You will always slide back into being who you actually are. And the person you are with will want a refund.

But. If you meet somebody and they love you when you are your true, awful, not-ready-yet, boring, not cool enough, not handsome enough, not pretty enough, too fat, too poor self? And if you love them back so much it makes you calm? And they have flaws and you do not mind a single one of them? If you can say yes, you have found…..IT.

From author Augusten Burroughs

and then there are these two;

“I will love you forever; whatever happens. Till my end and after my end, and when I find my way out of the land of the beyond, I’ll drift about forever, all my atoms, till I find you again… I’ll be looking for you, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we’ll cling together so tight that nothing and no one’ll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you… We’ll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams… And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they won’t just be able to take one, they’ll have to take two, one of you and one of me.” Phillip Pullman

OR

"Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words "make" and "stay" become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.” Still life with Woodpecker Tom Robins.

My DF loved This Day I Marry My Best Friend. He said it was short and simple and say everything perfect

We used Union by Robert Fulghum.

I recently had a bride who loves stars. I did a reading by Carl Sagan from Cosmos.

Find something meaningful to the TWO of you.